Business
How to organise a business trip
A trip across several cities with a dozen meetings falls apart not because of bad negotiating but because of logistics.
How the route is built
Start from the dates that cannot move
A show, a fair, a factory visit — everything else fits around those.
Group the meetings by city
Dashing between cities for a single meeting costs more than moving it.
Build the high-speed trains in
Between neighbouring cities the train beats the plane once you count the trip to the airport and security.
Book the interpreter for the whole day
Hiring by the hour breaks down at the first rescheduled meeting, and meetings here are rescheduled often.
Leave one day free
It will go on whatever comes up along the way: an extra factory, a meeting, paperwork.
Worth knowing
High-speed rail tickets are bought against a passport and issued to a named person. In season the popular routes sell out days ahead.
Careful
During the big fairs, hotels near the exhibition complex multiply in price and sell out early. Book them at the same time as you fix the show dates.
Checked: 26 August 2026
Editor: The PANDA editorial team
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Sources
- China State Railway Groupofficial source
- Ministry of Commerce of the PRCofficial source
- PRC government portal for foreignersofficial source
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